[Hypnosis, Maids, Bad End]

"Why! Why does she keep getting stronger!? Can't I catch a break!?"

General Spider shouted as she kicked open the door to one of the empty classrooms. Most of the students had gone home at this point, and Bat was covering her ass so she wouldn't be noticed. Allowing her to just simply vent her frustrations as she stomped inside, fumes pouring from her ears...

She had... Okay. Lost wouldn't cut it, because she personally hadn't been the loser. No, the one that had lost was her Jõtaijin. Yet again, one of her plans fell through. Not to mention, that damned girl kept on unlocking stronger and stronger forms! And each of them was even more frustrating to deal with than the last!

"If this keeps going, I'm going to have to resort to drastic means..." The lavender-haired woman muttered as she approached the teacher's desk. She had stored the prototype in one of the desk's drawers. She just needed to pour a bit of her own power into it, and then everything would work.

But...

"WHERE IS IT?!"

Spider threw each drawer against the wall as all of them proved to be empty. She was sure that she had kept the prototype in here! She made sure too, when she dragged Akaijin here to test out the power on somebody with Pawn Syndrome! Even if it wasn't going to work as well on somebody like that Hero-

"Saeko, are you looking for this?"

Spider froze as she heard a sweet voice echoing through her ears. Prompting her to turn towards the owner of the voice, who happened to be standing right behind the door that she had kicked open. How had she gotten there? More importantly, that was...

"Y...Yumeko Watanabe?" Spider muttered, before shaking her head rapidly. "Wait, no, how do you know who I really am!?" She shouted, trying to compose herself as she pointed at the gun in the girl's hands. "AND GIVE ME BACK MY GUN!"

Yumeko smiled gently as she gazed at that spiral-adorned spider-themed gun in her hands. "You want this back?" She chimed, before slowly pointing it towards Spider. "Now, why should I give it back? You're just going to use it to cause trouble. Trouble that I need to clean up."

"What are you talking about!?" None of this made sense to Spider. Clean up!? She was a civvie, a normal human... W-Wasn't she? She... She couldn't just act like she owned the place and treat her like this! It was against the rules, against everything..!

The black-haired girl chuckled slightly. "I could tell you. But you'd probably forget. And at this point, this timeline's already a mess as it is. So I think I'll just have a little fun now. Hope you don't mind, Saeko. You're so much cuter when you're nice and obedient, anyway."

Timeline!? Mess!? Alright, things had gotten far too out of hand. And if this kept going, there's no way that Spider was going to be able to recover. Best to just go on the offensive.

"GIVE IT BACK-"

Spider certainly tried to wrestle control back from this girl. She did. But by the time she went into action and tried to send out strings to bind her and keep her from stopping her, it was already too late.

Yumeko held her arm out, and clutched the trigger of the gun. The hypnotic pattern on the side spun for a second, before the gun shot off its own string. Straight into Spider's mind, wrapping around it like she would wrap her string around her prey.

She tried to struggle, but she couldn't. As soon as that 'web' made contact with her mind, everything simply went blank. Her eyes started to spiral, and she started drooling a little. In short, she had been forcibly hypnotized, all with the simple pull of a trigger...

"Saeko, Saeko..." Yumeko sighed as she came closer, gently stroking the gun in her hand. "You don't have to go all out and act like you're somebody else. You made this, and that's an impressive display already." She said, gently caressing the gun...

Technically speaking, this wasn't actually Saeko's original Hypno Gun. It was one that she had smuggled from her original timeline. It was one of her preferred weapons back then, since the Jõtai that were used to turn her and the rest of Golden Freedom into the Monsters that they were... It was a lot less refined. So she used the gun to enthrall her targets, and from there corrupt them into their Monster of the Week form.

The gun that she had found in this empty classroom was of similar make, but it wasn't complete. It was nothing more than a prototype... Yet it showed similar promise. If Saeko actually put it to good use, it would've been able to enthrall Mikai, if not Hiro and others that would stand up to try and stop her...

Spider didn't do much after her mind had been wrapped in these glowing strings. She just stood there. Staring into nothing. Staring and staring like she couldn't do anything else. Being an obedient slave, who always waiting obediently for the orders that she had to follow...

"Transform back to normal, Saeko."

An order ran through her ears, and a golden glow quickly swallowed the lavender-haired woman. Returning her to the meek and unimposing girl, Saeko Suikumo. A girl that Yumeko had been keeping her eye on for quite some time...

After all, there was a constant in the timeline. She would always be the one to give Mikai the chance to be a Heroine. Whether intentionally or not. It was why Yumeko was in that time and place. Why she was there to watch Mikai's first chance to be a Hero.

"To think that somebody like you, Saeko, could be such a troubling girl..." Yumeko muttered, as she stuffed the Hypno Gun back into her uniform. All while keeping a close eye on the girl, thoughts quickly running through her mind.

What was she going to do to her..? What could she still do to her, considering everything that the Spider girl had done...

A light turned on inside her head, and Yumeko simply smiled. Yes, that seemed like it'd be a fun idea...

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"I wonder why Yumeko'd want to meet me at school?"

Mikai asked herself as she scratched the back of her head. It's not like it was that weird for her to meet with Yumeko, since she was her best friend and everything. But why at school? Couldn't they have gone home to relax? Maybe play a couple of games if Mom promised to just watch? It's not that she didn't want to play with Mom, but she had a tendency to get really invested even if she was just invited to play a single game...

But what exactly could Yumeko want at school? There were plenty of neat and cool people at school, Yuuki-senpai and Saki-senpai especially. So... Maybe she wanted to help her get better at socializing, so she could mesh better with them?

Whatever the case was, she had sent her the picture of a clubhouse. She'd get the answers if she headed there, and the place was pretty close. Just gotta head over there, and...

Mikai blinked a few times as she noticed Saeko-senpai was standing right outside the clubhouse. Huh? Saeko-senpai? What was she doing there? More importantly, why was she dressed like a maid? Wasn't that Agatha's thing? ...Maybe Agatha had been teaching her how to be a maid? The few times she had spoken with Saeko-senpai, she was lacking a lot of confidence. So it wasn't that weird to think!

"Saeko-senpai!" The sandy-blonde cried out as she ran towards the lavender-haired maid, waving towards her. "Why are you dressed like a maid?? Can you tell me??" She cried out, hoping that she would hear her.

But Saeko didn't really react, even as the girl ran all the way up to her. Instead of responding to her cries, she simply bowed her head down in front of her, and smiled as she lifted her head. "Greetings, Master. Come inside. I live to make your life a breeze." She said, in a strangely sweet and yet kind of robotic way...

Mikai scratched her chin slightly as she heard what Saeko was saying. On one hand, this was extremely suspicious. On the other hand, it was Yumeko that had told her to come here. So... Maybe this was something that Yumeko arranged?

"Saeko-senpai, have you seen Yumeko?" Well, better just ask her and figure out from there. Couldn't hurt to get her thoughts at least.

Saeko tilted her head slightly. "Yumeko..." She paused, her eyes flickering for a second instead of being made out of devoted spirals. It was like something was trying to force its way back to the surface, but it didn't last. Instead, she started smiling as things clicked into place. "Ah, you mean Mistress. Mistress is inside this room. She's been expecting somebody." She said, as she made a bit of space between her hands to measure a short distance. "Somebody rather short, and beaming with sunshine. Not unlike you, Master."

...

"Master, Mistress has been expecting you."

Mikai snickered seconds later, as her mind caught up to what was going on too. Okay, so Yumeko was behind this somehow? Well, maybe, but it definitely seemed like Saeko-senpai was a little slow on the uptake. "Thanks, Saeko-senpai!" So she got up on her tippy toes and gave the adorably maid a kiss on the cheek. To thank her for the help, and generally thank her for her service too. Mom always said to thank those that helped her, and that was all the more true now.

Saeko blushed, her eyes flickering between those spirals and her own furious eyes, though she wasn't able to express her true emotions yet. Not while the hypnotic effects of that gun were still fresh inside her mind.

All she could do was watch Mikai walk into the clubhouse, and quietly lock the door behind her after she entered as well...

"Yumekooo! Why is Saeko-senpai a weird maid?"

Mikai didn't really plan on beating around the bush. She wanted answers. And she wanted to know what Yumeko wanted her at school for too, that was very important!

Yumeko smiled from her comfortable seat in the other end of the room, laying down sweetly on a couch. It felt so nice to lay upon. Soft in all the right ways, to the point where it could probably swallow her whole if she wasn't ready. She couldn't help but chuckle a bit too, her mind already caught up in a whirlwind of imagination...

"Weird maid? Mikai, that's not very nice to say." But she managed to keep herself focused. Even if only slightly. "She's a very good maid. And she'll remain a very good maid, if I have anything to say about it." She said, as she snapped her fingers in a commanding manner.

Just like that, Saeko quickly shuffled over to the couch where her Mistress was laying down, teapot in hand and teacup ready to be filled in the other. She was there to serve. To follow every possible order that she might receive. That was her duty. Her sole purpose...

Mikai watched as Saeko poured her a cup of tea, blushing a little as she did so. Okay, she wasn't a weird maid. But this did make her feel a little weird. Because... Well, it kinda looked like... Spider was the one pouring her a cup of tea. But that couldn't be right. Saeko wasn't Spider. She was Saeko! Right?

"Come closer, Mikai."

Something about Yumeko's voice felt a little more compelling compared to before. Or maybe she was just feeling the extra pressure on her, because of the scene playing out in front of her. Whichever the case was, Mikai approached as obediently as she could. Trying not to focus too much on the pretty maid...

Tried being the operative word. Now that she was really paying attention, she was a little taller than Saeko-senpai usually was. Not only that, but she was... really busty, and her legs were really smooth and uncovered, and... No, there was no way. But...

"Y...Yumeko?" Mikai asked, her blush deeply coating her face. "Is... Is Saeko-senpai..?"

"Spider?" Yumeko cut her off with a smile, before softly nodding. "She is. And she's been keeping it hidden from you, from Yuuki, and especially from Saki. Those two have a lot of history too, I'm surprised she's been able to keep it hidden from her all this time." She acted so flippant about it all, despite how important it was...

Mikai could feel the sweat running down her face as Yumeko described this. "But... But, why?" There were so many questions running through her mind at the moment. And she didn't really have time to properly think about all of them. So ‘Why?’ would have to do.

Yumeko raised a single eyebrow. "Why what?" She asked, before pausing and chuckling. "Oh, there's no reason to let you keep questioning things, Mikai. You really should just clear out your mind and be just like her. Trust me, it's fun. You won't have to worry about anything anymore."

Naturally, Mikai didn't understand a thing of what Yumeko was saying. It all just sounded so weird. So peculiar coming out of her mouth. She... She had done all of this, she understood that. But why? Why would she do something like this..?

Not that she got to think about why for much longer. Because she ended up staring straight at the big, bright tip of a very comical looking raygun. Not unlike the kind of guns that the ranged characters Mom played in her games would use. Not unlike the kind of guns that baddies in the series that Tsubasa liked used...

"Are... Are you a bad guy, Yumeko..?"

That was the only thing that Mikai could really muster, prompting Yumeko to pause for a second. The expression on Mikai's face was tugging at her heartstrings a little...

"No. I'm not." Yumeko said, sighing as she reached over and patted the girl on the head. Watching her slowly smile as she felt a weight lift off her heart.

"I'm your girlfriend."

Right as Mikai felt a shock pour through her at that reveal, Yumeko clenched her finger around the trigger. And instantly, the webbing that wrapped up Saeko's mind wrapped right around Mikai's as well. Leaving her expression to grow nice and docile. None of that worry. None of that silly stuff that made it feel so serious.

Just a nice, calm, almost giggly smile. As intended. Yumeko made sure to change the specific specs of the gun after she had turned Saeko into a maid, just so the result wouldn't be nearly as dull or as worrying. So here Mikai stood, a slave to the gun, and a happy slave at that.

Yumeko let out a deep breath as she pocketed the hypno gun again, sweat running down her face. "Goodness, Mikai. I just wanted you to get a good look at Saeko while she had been turned into a maid, and you start filling me with doubt!" She cried out, as she snapped her fingers.

Both of the girls that she had hypnotized with the gun took a seat beside her on the couch, after Yumeko sat up properly and allowed them a bit of space. Allowing her to hug them nice and close with a smile on her face. Hugging them both like this... It wasn't quite what she expected it to feel like, but it definitely felt nice.

"Honestly, I'm a little sad." Yumeko said, as she gently pecked both girls on the cheek. Causing them to naturally giggle, despite their minds being nearly empty. They could only barely react to stimuli like this...

"You two are so much better when you're both aware. But Saeko just had to start working on that darn gun again. And if she starts working on that gun, everything's just going to start collapsing in on itself before long. Even if Mikai ends up stopping her."

Neither of the two were able to react to Yumeko prattling on and on and on. And frankly, she didn't need them to react. Just having them hear her like this was good enough for her, as she simply sighed and nuzzled up against the two of them. She really, really just needed time like this.

Time to simply sit back and accept that her latest jump was nothing more than a failure. Time to accept that she'd have to start over again, and grow to love yet another Mikai. And if Saeko happened to grow a heart too, that'd be nice. Seeing the two of them fall in love despite their differences, despite their antagonism... It was so sweet. But at the same time, that's why...

...No, better not think about all of that stuff. Besides, it'd be a while before she'd be ready to jump to another timeline. So instead, she'd have to figure out how to spend that time wisely...

A thought came to Yumeko's mind, smirking a little as she reached back into her uniform. Pulling out the Hypno Gun that she had used prior. It had left the two of them pretty giggly and pretty mindless, perfect for their new roles as maids.

But what if she shifted it ever slightly and left a timer on the duration of the hypnotic effect? All she had to do was change a few values, and then... Yep, that should do it.

With the two maids clinging to her, Yumeko turned the Hypno Gun on herself. And she pulled the trigger, watching her mind get ensnared by the webbing, as she started shivering from how it felt...

Only to smile dominantly as she dropped the gun. If she was going to leave this timeline behind....

At least Mistress would have fun with her Maids, until the time was ripe...